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...Zeal: A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced...
...problem with Ida Picker's Burnering, for my taste, is that its zeal outruns its craftsmanship. The concept is all there, maybe even a tentative first draft. But it has not yet been translated from thought into either English or stage talk, and the personal world it creates remains altogether too exclusive...
Even with a blue-ribbon candidate and a more expertly managed campaign, the G.O.P. would probably have fared little better. Daley is an autocrat, a Democrat and a bureaucrat in that order, and handles all three roles with zeal and efficiency. Though skeptics might reverse his slogan-"Good government is good politics"-King Richard has made it work well enough to satisfy the "big mules" of Chicago's power structure. Nudged by the nation's most formidable political machine, the city's rank-and-file voters agreed...
Self-Righteous Zeal. Frei proved to be a dedicated reformer but a poor politician. In proceeding with his revolution, he managed to offend just about everyone. The Communists attacked his land-reform program because it stole, with little change, the thunder from their land-for-the-masses campaign promises. The landlords were unhappy because the government paid low prices for the expropriated property. A united front of leftist parties called FRAP attacked his plan to "Chileanize" the country's foreign-owned copper industry because it stopped short of nationalization. The rich complained about having to pay income taxes...
Frei compounded his problems by refusing to compromise or soften his reforms and by pushing his programs with such self-righteous zeal that he often offended even would-be supporters. He started a running feud with the opposition-controlled Senate, which last month even denied him permission to travel to the U.S. on a state visit and allowed him to fly to Punta del Este this week only as a gesture of national pride. It was largely to show the Senate who was boss that Frei put such emphasis on the municipal elections, confident that a popular surge of votes...